Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design

It’s Episode 2 and we’re talking Smallworld, board game design, online gaming and, for some reason cardboard… What’s We’re Talking This is a live episode, recorded after Grant and I met up for a few drinks and a lot of games. Mostly, we played Smallworld, with a couple of games of Dwarves of King’s Hold […]

00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:35 Martin Vaux joins us to talk Lords of War – a Kickstarter update 00:19:55 Martin tells us how he went about creating a world for the game. 00:51:15 The GM of our When Worlds Collide Campaign joins us to discuss how he created a world for us to game in. 01:31:05 Outro and contact details The post Episode 19 – World Building Part 2 appeared first on Dicing With Design: Role Playing, Wargaming, Card games & Board Game Design Podcast.

00:01:45 Updates – RAEX games, kickstarter, Once upon a time, B movie, Battlestar Galactica, Lords of War, Blackbox Games, Sedition Wars, DreadBall, Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale, Drive Thru RPG, XCOM 00:15:00 Joe tells us about developments on the Warpack fantasy battles system – Warpack, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, The Wheel of Time. 00:27:15 World Building: Playing games in popular culture settings, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit. 00:38:10 World Building: Specific gaming settings – Legend of the 5 Rings, Eclipse Phase, Eternal Contenders, When Worlds Collide. 00:59:40 Contact Details and Outros. In this episode Joe gives us an update on the developments to his forthcoming fantasy battle game, Warpack. Then we get i...

Frostgrave is one of the most recognisable games in the tabletop miniature wargame hobby. It's also one of the most popular outwith the Games Workshop Empire. On this episode, we're joined by the architect of the frozen city himself - Joe McCullough. We're going to talk about the lay of the land when this miniature agnostic fantasy skirmish game was released back in 2015, and speculate on the key factors behind its success. Joe's no one-trick pony though, and his scope extends well beyond Frostgrave. Stargrave may sound similar in name (and certainly shares a few core mechanics), but this sci-fi...

Big units of troops marching across a scenery packed 6 by 4 table – there’s no aesthetic quite like it. For most of us growing up, there was only one option when it came to fighting out mass fantasy battles and that was Warhammer. And whilst the Old World is returning at some point in the future, there really is no need to hang around waiting on that day, whenever it might be. There are plenty of good Warhammer alternatives you can pick up and start playing today. For starters, there’s absolutely nothing to stop you from playing whatever edition of the ga...

What draws people in to the tabletop hobby? Is it the collecting and painting of miniatures? Or the actual gaming? Or is it the storyworlds and “fluff”?

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Find out which games helped introduce us and win us over to the miniature and tabletop world.

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Colin and Matthew discuss their respective introductions to miniatures, Games Workshop, and tabletop wargaming in general.

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Hey folks! I wanted to tell you about another show we’ve been working on, called Hostile Worlds. It’s a documentary drama crossover show, set in space, which aims to take the humble science podcast and inject a bit of fun.

We’ll be piloting our ship around the most dangerous places in the universe, trying not to freeze, boil, blow ourselves up or succumb to any of the other grisly fates that await any daring (or stupid) space explorer. If you’re into games and geekery, then this might be right up your street! You can subs...

Live Kickstarter special! In this episode Joe tells us all about the Kickstarter for his game, Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale. Find out how to help bring this fast furious card game of champions to your tabletop. You have until March 30th (Wrestlemania weekend!) to help make this happen.

Go to the Kickstarter here: http://kck.st/1ETJE0B

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In this episode we have an update on PWBR and a look at Warhammer End Times. Enjoy!Episode 29 – Warhammer End Times

00:00:00 Introductions

00:04:10 What we’ve been playing: WWC, Rolemaster, Battlestar Galactica, Pegasus Expansion, Pass the Bomb, Insecurity, Contenders, Space Hulk, Warpack, Warhammer, Pretenders, Clash of Clans

00:39:10 Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale – Kickstarter update

00:42:25 We discuss the implications of Warhammer End Times and what’s in store for 9th Edition Warhammer.

Contact us at dicinwithdesign.com

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There’s a lot to catch up on at the start of this episode, then we talk about our first try of the roleplaying game, Archipelago.

00:00:00 Intro and Updates:

Warpack, Space Hulk, Warhammer 40K, Tsuro, Castle Ravenloft, Legend of Drizzt, Wrath of Ashardalon, Stag Quest, Dungeon Saga, In a Bind, Basius

00:44:03 Archipelago:

Small World, Archipelago

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Important news: The Dungeon Saga Podcast has its own feed now. If you’re subscribing through the Dicing with Design feed then from now on you’ll want to subscribe to the feed “Dungeon Saga Podcast” through whatever app you use. You can still find the episodes on www.dicingwithdesign.com as they come out.

This epidode brings us up to date with the stretch goals which have been reached up til tonight.

Get in touch: @grantsensei, www.dicingwithdesign.com

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In this episode I go over some potential topics for future discussion and give my two cents on the basic components of Dungeon Saga as it appeared at the start of the Kickstarter.

Get in contact with me, Grant, by going on www.dicingwithdesign.com with any queries or comments.

Don’t miss a single episode: subscribe to Dicing With Design on itunes or your podcatcher.

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Welcome everyone to a short introductory episode of the unofficial Dungeon Saga Podcast. Over the course of the next month I’m aiming to keep you up to date with news and opinions on Mantic Games Kickstarter project.If you want to get in touch with any ideas for the show go to www.dicingwithdesign.com.

Edit: While itunes is confirming the feed for the new podcast, you can keep up to dates with the episodes by subscribing to the main Dicing with Design podcast.

Happy questing!

Grant

The post Dungeon Sa...

In today’s episode we discuss: What is a game? We also go into what types of fun there are and how our games activate these modes of fun, from Dungeons and Dragons to daydreaming!Episode 26: What is a Game?

Topics:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:00 What is a game? How to host a dungeon, Greg Kostikyan, types of fun, elements which make a game, escapist elements of games, flow theory, xeo design, Nicole Lazzaro, www.princeofdarknessgames.com

00:33:15 Topic 2? Illusionism Dungeons and Dragons, Archipelago, Pathfinder, Rolemaster, When Worlds Collide, Mistborn, Ygdrassil

00:55:20 Outros and Co...

In this special episode Grant talks to Danny Boyle about his roleplaying game Those Who Play, a narrative-focused roleplaying system. With only a few days left to go on the kickstarter, you can find out more from the following:

www.thosewhoplaygame.com

www.kickstarter.com/projects/diamondblood/those-who-play-a-narrative-focused-role-playing-sy

twitter.com/FungeonMaster

Feeding BritCaster.com

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00:00:00 Introductions and gaming updates: X-Wing, Warpack, 40K, Warhammer, Stag Quest, Heroquest, Hex Hex XL, Space Cadets Dice Duel

00:25:25 Conpulsion Gaming Convention, Edinburgh: Project Zeke Miniatures, All things Zombie, Frankenstein’s Bodies, Pro-Wrasslin’ Battle Royale, Those Who Play Games, Dreadball, Hell 4 Leather

00:58:20 Carronade Wargames Show, Falkirk: Attica Games, Godslayer

01:19:38 Outro and contact details.

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Welcome to the latest episode! This time, our main topic is solo gaming and Joe tells us about his solo roleplaying game, Swords of the Skultakers. Our updates went into some depth about a few games, and we stayed focused enough to make them mini topics in themselves. Hope you enjoy!

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:30 X Wing first impressions

00:10:00 Ankh Morpork overview

00:18:10 Warpack Updates

00:26:24 News! Including Chaos Reborn, Tidal Games, In Security, Warhammer Wood Elves

00:34:15 Main Topic: solo games – Digital v Analogue, Deus Ex, Fighting Fantasy, XCOM, Swords of the Sk...

In this episode we aimed to talk about how the number of players in games affected games design. Our initial aim was to talk about solo games, including Joe’s Swords of the Skulltakers solo RPG. To do that justice, though, we’ve left solo games for a later episode.

Enjoy the episode and get in contact, email podcast@dicingwithdesign.com, tweet @dwdpodcast, find us on Facebook and Google+ and now you can record a message by clicking, “Send us a voice message” on our website. We look forward to hearing from you.

00:00:00 Intro

00:00...

In this episode Colin is talking to Paco from G*M*S Magazine. The main topic is their current project Dice and Slice – a web TV show centred around gaming and cookery. Yep, unusual combo, I know, but when you hear Paco tell us about it, you’ll find out why!

We’re talking gaming history, the background of GMS Magazine, how to go about producing a web tv show, shiny new equipment and a couple of games that Paco’s currently developing.

If you want to find out more about GMS itself, including tonnes of exist...

It’s fantasy wargame time on Dicing with Design this time round. After a bumper edition of updates, Colin gives us his first impressions on the brand new Warhammer Dwarfs army book. Then Joe tells us about the great progress he’s made on the in-development Warpack ruleset.

00:00:00 Lords of War, Warpack, Warhammer, Sedition Wars, Ankh Morpork, Dreadball, Blood Bowl, Ticket to Ride, Warpack

00:15:10 Warhammer Fantasy Battles – Colin gets his first new army book in the 5 years he’s been playing Warhammer. But will it be thumbs up or thumbs down for the latest GW suppleme...

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:35 Martin Vaux joins us to talk Lords of War – a Kickstarter update

00:19:55 Martin tells us how he went about creating a world for the game.

00:51:15 The GM of our When Worlds Collide Campaign joins us to discuss how he created a world for us to game in.

01:31:05 Outro and contact details

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:45 Updates – RAEX games, kickstarter, Once upon a time, B movie, Battlestar Galactica, Lords of War, Blackbox Games, Sedition Wars, DreadBall, Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royale, Drive Thru RPG, XCOM

00:15:00 Joe tells us about developments on the Warpack fantasy battles system – Warpack, Warhammer Fantasy Battles, The Wheel of Time,

00:27:15 World Building: Playing games in popular culture settings, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit,

00:38:10 World Building: Specific gaming settings – Legend of the 5 Rings, Eclipse Phase, Eternal Contenders, When Worlds Collide

00:59:40 Contact Details and Outros.

In this episode Joe gives us an up...

In this episode, we’re thrilled to be joined by Martin Vaux, co-designer of Lords of War card game. We discuss the game, the Kickstarter for the new expansion, Templars vs Undead, and all things gaming. Unfortunately, the sound quality won’t be as high as you’ve come to expect from your hosts, but Martin sounded great and he’s the one you’ll be interested in anyway!

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This episode was recorded after some alpha testing of Warpack. Warpack is Prince of Darkness Games’ forthcoming card-based fantasy wargame. We discuss the design philosophy behind the game, various ways in which the game could be expanded, campaign gaming and more!

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0:00:00 Introduction and updates, including:

Lords of War

Warpack

Warhammer

Warhammer World

Forbidden Planet

Ticket to Ride

Shadows Over Camelot

Battlestar Galactica

Cortex Plus

Dragonlance

DreadBall

Blood Bowl

Project Pandora

Carcasonne

Sedition Wars

When Worlds Collide

Labyrinths and Lycanthropes

Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royal

00:22:55 Lords of War Review

With the new instalment of Lords of War being currently kickstarting, we...

This time round we discuss our experiences at the recent September 2013 Warhammer Battle Brothers at Warhammer World. We’d like to thank all of our opponents and the tournament organisers for giving us such an enjoyable weekend.

0:00:00 Introduction

0:02:30 The day before – practice match and first impressions of Warhammer World

0:14:05 Tournament Day 1 and the Pub Quiz

0:38:45 Tournament Day 2 and results

1:08:30 Outro

Discussion topics:

Battle Brothers

Warhammer World

Warhammer Fantasy Battles

Warpack

Dungeon Duellists

The...

0:02:00 Updates, Including:

Kromore 2145 Kickstarter,

XCOM: Enemy Unknown,

Space Hulk computer game,

Warhammer Fantasy Battles,

Vassal Engine,

Chainsaw Warrior,

Dreadball,

A Game of Thrones LCG,

Space 1889,

0:15:45 Battle Brothers and Warhammer Tournaments – Our preparations for the upcoming tournament at Warhammer World and tournament design in general, including:

Warhammer Fantasy Battles,

Warhammer 40K,

Heelan Hammer,

0:49:20 Warhammer 9th edition and Wargame Design, including:

Warseer News and Rumours,

Hey folks – this week we have a continuation of last week’s interview with T. Julian Bell. Last time you found out about the RAEX system, and this time we hear from Julian’s experience in getting games published and sold.

If you’re an aspiring games designer, or even if you’ve been in the industry a little while, you should find something interesting here. Julian gives us his thoughts on Kickstarter too and his plans to use the platform for their current project.
Later in the Podcast we also have a recording Grant and Colin made...

In this episode Colin’s talking to T. Julian Bell from RAEX Games. They’re soon releasing a new setting for their RAEX gaming system called Kromore 2145, a Cyber-Steam setting as they call it. It’ll be coming out in Q1 2014.

You can try out an abridged version of the game in the meantime though – there’s free public version of their Core Rulebook available on the RAEX games website. In the interview Julian takes us through the RAEX system and tells us his thoughts on game design, and how to make an engaging game.

Here...

0:00:00 Intro and updates

0:11:50 Our favourite characters

0:43:20 Character creation systems

Another episode in quick succession! This time it’s all about characters. First of all we talk about our own favourite characters from games and fiction and what makes them so great. Then we move on to character creation systems, including Joe’s brand new hotness Eternal Contenders!

Apologies for the dip in audio quality in this episode, there were a couple of technical issues that were sorted for tomorrow’s (yes, that fast!) episode. Enjoy!

Things what we talk...

0:00:00 Intro and updates

0:06:30 Main topic: designing the game

In this episode we continue to hammer out our live design of Cthulu’s Cosmic Kobold Commandos. We’re aiming for a light-hearted comedy game, so we spend some time discussing just what makes a comedy game. We’re still putting the game together, so if you have any ideas for the game we’d love to hear from you – get us on podcast@dicingwithdesign.com, @grantsensei, @joejprince and @gamercolin.

I won’t lie, this episode won’t be for everyone as there’s a lot of brainstor...

Episode 7 – Mobile Frame Zero and Rules Heavy vs Rules Light

In this episode Joe and Grant discuss their experiences at Conpulsion, followed by a review of the rules-light Lego-based minis game, Mobile Frame Zero (16:15). This leads onto a discussion of rules light vs. rules heavy games (38:20)

Things we discussed in this episode:

Warhammer Fantasy Battles

Blood Bowl

Dungeon Duellists

Pro Wrasslin’ Battle Royal

Game of  Thrones LCG

Conpulsion

Mobile Frame Zero

Eternal Contenders

Hell for Leather

Kni...

A Monopoly “variant”, from boardgamegeek.com

Our main topic this week is starting designing a game LIVE on air! We need YOU to help us, so make sure and let us know what you think of our design as it stands. Here are some things we talk about:

XCOM – Enemy Unknown

Civilization – Revolution

Alas Vegas

Hell 4 leather

Tweet RPG

Nearly Enough Dice Podcast

Monopoly

Eternal Contenders

Yggdrasil

Burning Empires

Vassal

Lackey CCG

Bearsw...

In this episode we discuss what games we’ve been playing recently, before launching into our main topic:  The Role of the GM.

I broke it down into 8 roles:

We talked about a huge number of games this episode, here are the links:

Joe’s article: Is the Era of the GM over? On Geeknative

Joe’s article: Dicing with Design on Geeknative

Sedition Wars

Project Pandora...

Episode 4 – Advanced Heroquest Advanced

Welcome to another episode of the Dicing with Design podcast, with Colin, Grant and Joe.

In this episode we start off with an update on our recent gaming, followed by our main topic: Heroquest!

We begin the discussion with a history of Games Workshop / MB Games’ classic Heroquest. That’s followed by GW’s own Advanced Heroquest and a comparison with other dungeonbash games. Then we explain our homebrew rules which we’ve been working on and playing with recently, before some in-depth examples of actual play.

We r...

DWD-Episode-3-PvP

In this episode Colin, Grant and Joe talk about the most recent session in their epic Rolemaster roleplaying campaign. This is followed by the main topic of PvP. We discuss, “What if” conflicts we play for fun, examples where PvP has arisen in our games, managing nonphysical conflicts between party members, traditional D&D PvP conflicts, deliberately designing PvP into games, PvP in digital games, balance between character classes and LARPing

We hope you enjoy the show. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any feedback – you can get us on...

Smallworld – check out that cardboard

It’s Episode 2 and we’re talking Smallworld, board game design, online gaming and, for some reason cardboard…

What’s We’re Talking

This is a live episode, recorded after Grant and I met up for a few drinks and a lot of games. Mostly, we played Smallworld, with a couple of games of Dwarves of King’s Hold and a spot of Game of Thrones. But, like all good cardboard fetishists, we were stuck on Smallworld and the sheer quality of the game. Listen to the Podcast to...

Welcome to the first ever episode of Dicing with Design!

This podcast hopes to cover all aspects of games design, from creating a brand new game from scratch to designing a campaign to run as a GM.

We’ll be talking about creating characters, creating storylines, creating rules and creating entire games systems. We’ll be discussing existing games, how they’re designed and how they can be changed with a bit of creative house ruling. We’ll also be talking a bit more generally about games we’re playing right now, and what we like.